The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday July 25 1910

Amongst the other reforms forecasted by the Home Secretary the abolition of the ticket of leave system the delegation of the power of supevision to philanthropic societies in the place of the Police and the substitution of a system of corretive physical instruction in cases of youths covicted of rowdyism and boisterousness in lieu of imprisonment deserve special attention. [...] This decision is undoubtedly quite correct in the light of the law as laid down in the Mitakshara but certain decsions of the Judicial Committee have helped to create an amount of confusion on the subject so that it is difficult to be quite sure whether the decision is in accord with the principles of the Privy Council judgments. [...] The suit was resisted inter alia on the grdunds that the father of the Respondents had by adoption ceased to be a member of the family the Petitioner was entitled under a Will of the deceased Raja that the title to the temple did not pass with the estate and that the properties purchased by the ladies were not accretions to the estate. [...] Their Lordships held that the figures arrived at by the Collector and confirmed by the Judge did not represent the market value of the property in the sense in Mich the term should be understood. [...] field—That the contingency contemplated by the clause was a sale of the entire estate and it did not affect the mortgagee's right to proceed against the share in the hands of the purchaser who bought it subject to the mortgage.